Alex Mooney

Alex Mooney (7 June 1971-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-WV 2) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Shelley Moore Capito.

Biography
Alex Mooney was born in Washington DC in 1971, and he worked as a legislative analyst before serving in the Maryland Senate from 1999 to 2011 and in the US House of Representatives from 2015. He failed in his bid for the US Congress in Maryland, so he moved to West Virginia to run for Congress, leading to his critics deriding him as a "carpetbagger".